Can not clone mercurial (hg) repository via http

Question

I can't clone my repository via http:

abort: 'http://MYREPO' does not appear to be an hg repository!

Firstly, I created a new repo by hg init MYREPO followed by adding some file and commit.

The dir with my repo is password protected but there is no sign of problem because of it, I tried both methods of cloning: (on my local machine)

hg clone http://MYREPO my_repo

and

hg clone http://user:password@MYREPO my_repo

Permissions of repo dir are: drwxrwxr-x

I can clone this very repository on my remote machine (the same repo is on) without any problems.

What could be possibly wrong?

Answer 1

UPDATE:

Looks like you're getting confusing between repository and hostname

If running "hg serve", "hg clone http://USER@HOST:8000" where host can be you machine's IP or the hostname (type "hostname" on linux or try "ping localhost"). You can change the default port from 8000 by passing a --port #### to hg serve.

If you want to do it over ssh, "hg clone ssh://USER@HOST//PATH/TO/YOUR/REPOSITORY". Suppose you made an repository in your home directory called MYREPO then you would do this: "hg clone ssh://USER@HOST/~/MYREPO"

You can only clone your repo via http is something is serving that repo over http. Mercurial provides a built in http server for you. Run "hg serve" while inside of your repo then attempt to clone it from another location (or another command shell). If you just want a local clone, you don't need to use http ("hg clone ").

Also, try "hg help clone" and "hg help serve" for details.